http://edge.org/events/cool-in-the-hot-desert
enTHE EDGE DINNER 2015http://edge.org/event/the-edge-dinner-2015
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<p class="rtecenter"><img alt="" src="http://www.edge.org/images/Dinner2015Mosaic.png" /><br /><span style="line-height: 16.6399993896484px; text-align: center;">At The </span><em style="line-height: 16.6399993896484px; text-align: center;">Edge</em><span style="line-height: 16.6399993896484px; text-align: center;"> Dinner 2015 in Vancouver</span><br />
Dinner Photo Album Below</p>
<p class="rteindent1"><em>A new generation of artists, writing genomes as fluently as Blake and Byron wrote verses, might create an abundance of new flowers and fruit and trees and birds to enrich the ecology of our planet. Most of these artists would be amateurs, but they would be in close touch with science, like the poets of the earlier Age of Wonder. The new Age of Wonder might bring together wealthy entrepreneurs ... and a worldwide community of gardeners and farmers and breeders, working together to make the planet beautiful as well as fertile, hospitable to hummingbirds as well as to humans.</em> —<a href="http://www.edge.org/memberbio/freeman_dyson" target="_blank">Freeman Dyson</a></p>
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<p>In his 2009 talk at the Bristol Festival of Ideas, Freeman Dyson pointed out that we are entering a new Age of Wonder, which is dominated by computational biology. In articulating his vision for the future he noted that <a href="http://www.edge.org/" target="_blank"><em>Edge</em></a> is the nexus of this intellectual activity. <em style="line-height: 23.1111106872559px; text-align: center;">Edge</em><span style="line-height: 23.1111106872559px; text-align: center;">, through its <a href="http://edge.org/master-classes" target="_blank">Master Classes</a>, <a href="http://edge.org/eastover-farm-events" target="_blank">Seminars</a>, <a href="http://edge.org/annual-questions" target="_blank"><em>Edge</em> Annual Question</a>, Dinners, gathers together the third culture intellectuals and technology pioneers of the post-industrial, digital age.</span></p>
<p>This "worldwide community of gardeners and farmers and breeders" referred to by Dyson as the leaders of the "Age of Wonder" has been getting together for an annual dinner since 1985, when, following the launch of the IBM personal computer, it convened a dinner in Las Vegas during the Comdex convention. The dinner in the ensuing years has had many names—<span style="line-height: 23.1111106872559px;">"<a href="http://edge.org/events/the-edge-billionaries-39-dinner-1999" target="_blank">The Billionaires' Dinner</a>"(1999), "<a href="http://edge.org/events/the-edge-science-dinner" target="_blank">The </a></span><a href="http://edge.org/events/the-edge-science-dinner" target="_blank"><em style="line-height: 23.1111106872559px;">Edge</em></a><span style="line-height: 23.1111106872559px;"><a href="http://edge.org/events/the-edge-science-dinner" target="_blank"> Science Dinner</a>" (2003), "<a href="http://edge.org/event/the-london-edge-dinner-2006" target="_blank">The <em>Edge </em>London Dinner</a>" (2006), "<a href="http://edge.org/event/the-edge-new-age-of-wonder-dinner-2010" target="_blank">The Age of Wonder Dinner</a>"(2010), "<a href="http://edge.org/event/the-edge-dinner-2012-gallery" target="_blank">The <em>Edge</em> Dinner</a>" (2012)—</span>and has been held in many different kinds of locales: A Chinese restaurant in North Beach, the boardroom of the investment banking firm of Allen &amp; Co. in New York, <a href="http://edge.org/conversation/signatures-of-consciousness" target="_blank">The Ritz in Paris</a>, the boardroom of Rockefeller University; Zilly Fish in London, Cibo's in Monterey; Spago in Beverly Hills, Blue Water Cafe in Vancouver; a Vietnamese restaurant in Rome, <a href="http://edge.org/event/the-edge-dinner-in-torino-2012" target="_blank">Ristorante Del Cambio in Turin</a>. </p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 20 Mar 2015 16:42:20 +0000edge_manager26322 at http://edge.orgHeadCon '14http://edge.org/event/headcon-14
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p><em>"To arrive at the edge of the world's knowledge, seek out the most complex and sophisticated minds, put them in a room together, and have them ask each other the questions they are asking themselves." </em></p>
<p><strong>HEADCON '14</strong></p></div></div></div>Thu, 09 Oct 2014 20:50:59 +0000edge_manager25951 at http://edge.orgEdge: Live, in London 2014http://edge.org/event/edge-live-in-london-2014
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<p>This year's <em>Edge</em>-Serpentine Gallery collaboration took place in London at part of the Serpentine's "Extinction Marathon: Visions of the Future" event, at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery's extension, designed by Zaha Hadid, on Oct. 18, 2014. The 2-hour event, which was live-streamed, is presented, here in its entiretly, on <em>Edge.</em></p>
<p>The first hour was a converseation between Stewart Brand and Richard Prum on whether of not t<span style="font-size: 11.8181819915771px;">he prospect of "de-extinction" changes how we think about extinction. For the second hour, Molly Crockett introduced four <em>Edgies</em>—Helena Cronin, Jennifer Jacquet, Steve Jones, and Chiara Marletto, </span><span style="font-size: 11.8181819915771px;">who gave 10-minute talks with their perspectives on the subject of extinction. This was followed by a panel.</span></p>
<p class="rtecenter"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#b22222;"><strong>NEW—COMPLETE VIDEO AND TEXT</strong></span></span></p>
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<strong>Part I: <a href="http://edge.org/conversation/de-extinction-stewart-brand-richard-prum-with-hans-ulrich-obrist-and-brockman">"DE-EXTINCTION": STEWART BRAND &amp; RICHARD PRUM</a></strong><br /><strong style="font-size: 12px;">With Hans Ulrich Obrist and John Brockman</strong></h2>
<p><strong style="font-size: 12px;"><img alt="" src="http://edge.org/sites/default/files/conversation/leadimage/BrandPrum.jpg" width="640" /></strong></p>
<p>Does the prospect of "de-extinction" change how we think about extinction? Conservation science is shifting from being species-centric to function-centric, focussing on the overall health of ecosystems. Does the extinction of a species leave a "gap in nature" that can only be filled by returning the species to life and to the wild? Or will a functionally close relative serve? Is a de-extincted species really nothing more than a functionally close relative anyway? If it is too difficult and expensive to revive every extinct species, what are the criteria for deciding which ones to work on? Humans are the ones deciding. What ethics and aesthetics should guide those decisions?</p>
<p><strong>STEWART BRAND</strong> is the Founder of the "The Whole Earth Catalog" and Co-founder of The Long Now Foundation and Revive and Restore; Author, <em>Whole Earth Discipline</em>.<br /><strong><a href="http://edge.org/memberbio/stewart_brand" target="_blank">Stewart Brand's <em>Edge</em> Bio Page</a></strong></p>
<p><strong>RICHARD PRUM</strong> is an Evolutionary Ornithologist at Yale University, where he is the Curator of Ornithology and Head Curator of Vertebrate Zoology in the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History. He is working on a book about duck sex, aesthetic evolution, and the origin of beauty.<br /><strong><a href="http://edge.org/memberbio/richard_prum" target="_blank">Richard Prum's <em>Edge</em> Bio Page</a></strong></p>
<p class="rteright"><span style="font-size:16px;"><strong><a href="http://edge.org/conversation/de-extinction-stewart-brand-richard-prum-with-hans-ulrich-obrist-and-brockman" target="_blank">[...Continue to Part I—Video &amp; Text]</a></strong></span></p>
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<strong>Part II: <a href="http://edge.org/conversation/edgies-on-extinction">"<em>EDGIES</em> ON EXTINCTION"</a></strong></h2>
<p><strong>Molly Crockett introduces and moderates an event of four 10-minute talks by Helena Cronin, Jennifer Jacquet, Steve Jones, and Chiara Marletto, followed by a discussion joined by Hans Ulrich Obrist, and John Brockman.</strong></p>
<p><strong style="font-size: 12px;"><img alt="" src="http://edge.org/sites/default/files/conversation/leadimage/Panel%20Thumb.png" width="640" /></strong></p>
<p><strong>HANS ULRICH OBRIST: </strong>When we spoke with John Brockman about the Extinction Marathon he suggested, as a second part—as I mentioned in previous marathons we got the Edge community to realize maps and different formulas, and John thought today it would be wonderful to do a panel with UK based scientists who are part of the Edge community. We are extremely delighted that we now will have four presentations by Helena Cronin, by Chiara Marletto, by Jennifer Jacquet, and by Steve Jones. We welcome Steve Jones back to the Serpentine because he was part of the 2007 Experiment Marathon with Olafur Eliasson. The entire panel will be introduced by Molly Crockett. Molly is an associate professor for experimental psychology and fellow of Jesus college at the University of Oxford. She holds a Ph.D. in experimental psychology from Cambridge and a B.S. in neuroscience from UCLA. Dr. Crockett studies the neuroscience and psychology of altruism, of morality, and self-control. Her work has been published in many top academic journals including Science, PNAS, and also Neuron. Molly Crockett will now introduce Helena, Chiara, Jennifer, and Steve. We then, together with Molly and all the speakers and John, give a panel after that.</p>
<p><strong style="font-size: 12px;">MOLLY CROCKETT: </strong><span style="font-size: 12px;"> I'm very, very pleased to introduce Helena Cronin. She's the co-director of the Center for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science and the director of Darwin at LSE at the London School of Economics. She has many notable publications including the edited series, Darwinism Today, and the award winning, The Ant and the Peacock: Altruism and Sexual Selection from Darwin to Today, that has been featured in the New York Times' Best Books and Nature's Best Science Books of the Year. Her current research interests focus on the evolutionary understanding of sex differences. Let's give a very warm welcome to Helena and welcome her to the stage. ...</span></p>
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<p><b><img align="left" alt="" src="http://edge.org/sites/default/files/styles/member-photo/public/member-pictures/bk_405_helena_cronin.jpg?itok=K2XEdrx3" style="width: 200px; height: 200px; margin-right: 10px; margin-left: 10px;" /></b>... A strange thing happened on the way to a better world in pursuit of an admirable quest, that is, a world free of sex discrimination where you’re judged on your own qualities and not your sex. Truth and falsity went topsy-turvy. The truth—the silence of sex differences—became dangerous, unmentionable, and in its place the conventional wisdom, which is a ragbag of ideas that have long been extinct but are kept ghoulishly alive by popularity, became the entrenched orthodoxy influencing public thinking, agendas and policy-making, and completely crowding out science and sense.</p>
<p>My aim is to show you why the current orthodoxy should be abandoned and why, if you really care about a fairer world, the science does matter. It matters profoundly. I’m going to take two examples, both about the professions, because they very well epitomize the orthodox litany: how society systematically discriminates against women, and how at work they are victims of pervasive sexism. ...</p>
<p><strong>HELENA CRONIN</strong> is the Co-Director of LSE's Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science; Author, <em>The Ant and the Peacock: Altruism and Sexual Selection from Darwin to Today. </em><strong><a href="http://edge.org/memberbio/helena_cronin" target="_blank">Helena Cronin's <em>Edge</em> Bio Page</a></strong></p>
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<p><b><img align="left" alt="" src="http://edge.org/sites/default/files/styles/member-photo/public/member-pictures/picture-847-1406393096.jpg?itok=a5Aq_3B-" style="width: 200px; height: 200px; margin-right: 10px; margin-left: 10px;" /></b>There is a new fundamental theory of physics that's called constructor theory, and was proposed by David Deutsch who pioneered the theory of the universe of quantum computer. David and I are working this theory together. The fundamental idea in this theory is that we forumlate all laws of physics in terms of what tasks are possible, what are impossible, and why. In this theory we have an exact physical characterization of an object that has those properties, and we call that knowledge. Note that knowledge here means knowledge without knowing the subject, as in the thoery of knowledge of the philosopher, Karl Popper.</p>
<p>We’ve just come to the conclusion that the fact that extinction is possible means that knowledge can be instantiated in our physical world. In fact, extinction is the very process by which that knowledge is disabled in its ability to remain instantiated in physical systems because there are problems that it cannot solve. With any luck that bit of knowledge can be replaced with a better one. ...<span style="text-align: center;"> </span></p>
<p><strong>CHIARA MARLETTO</strong> is a Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College and Postdoctoral Research Assistant at the Materials Department, University of Oxford.<em> </em><strong><a href="http://edge.org/memberbio/chiara_marletto" target="_blank">Chiara Marletto's <em>Edge</em> Bio Page</a></strong></p>
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<p><img align="left" alt="" src="http://edge.org/sites/default/files/styles/member-photo/public/member-pictures/picture-197-1411679746.jpg?itok=g4C0xohR" style="width: 200px; height: 200px; margin-right: 10px; margin-left: 10px;" />I dream about the sea cow or imagine what they would be like to see in the wild, but the case of the Pinta Island giant tortoise was a particularly strange feeling for me personally because I had spent many afternoons in the Galapagos Islands when I was a volunteer with the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society in Lonesome George’s den with him. If any of you visited the Galapagos, you know that you can even feed the giant tortoises that are in the Charles Darwin Research Station. This is Lonesome George here.<br />
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He lived to a ripe old age but failed, as they pointed out many times, to reproduce. Just recently, in 2012, he died, and with him the last of his species. He was couriered to the American Museum of Natural History and taxidermied there. A couple weeks ago his body was unveiled. This was the unveiling that I attended, and at this exact moment in time I can say that I was feeling a little like I am now: nervous and kind of nauseous, while everyone else seemed calm. I wasn’t prepared to see Lonesome George. Here he is taxidermied, looking out over Central Park, which was strange as well. At that moment realized that I knew the last individual of this species to go extinct. That presents this strange predicament for us to be in in the 21st century—this idea of conspicuous extinction. ...</p>
<p align="left"><strong>JENNIFER JACQUET </strong>is Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies, NYU; Researching cooperation and the tragedy of the commons; Author,<em> Is Shame Necessary? </em><strong style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://edge.org/memberbio/jennifer_jacquet" target="_blank">Jennifer Jacquet's <em>Edge</em> Bio Page</a></strong></p>
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<p><b><strong style="text-align: center;"><img align="left" alt="" src="http://edge.org/sites/default/files/styles/member-photo/public/member-pictures/bk_339_steve_jones.jpg?itok=X9UlmDRk" style="width: 200px; height: 200px; margin-right: 10px; margin-left: 10px;" /></strong></b>What I wanted to talk about is somewhat of a parallel of that in human populations. If you were to go to a textbook on human biology from the time of Darwin or a bit later, you would certainly get an image that looked a bit like this. This is an image of the so-called races of humankind—racial types, as they called them. I’m not going to go into the question of whether there are real races of humankind because there aren’t. It’s interesting to note that until quite recently people assumed, and scientists assumed too, that the human species was divided into distinct groups that were biologically different from each other and had been isolated from each other for a long, long time.</p>
<p>Well, to some extent that was true. Until quite recently, human populations were isolated from each other. That’s changing quite quickly. ...</p>
<p><strong style="text-align: center;">STEVE JONES</strong><span style="text-align: center;"> is an Emeritus Professor of Genetics at University College London.</span><em style="text-align: center;"> </em><strong style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://edge.org/memberbio/steve_jones" target="_blank">Steve Jones's <em>Edge</em> Bio Page</a></strong></p>
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<p><b><img alt="" src="http://edge.org/sites/default/files/styles/member-photo/public/member-pictures/picture-3548-1413213561.png?itok=aDifhbEj" style="width: 190px; height: 200px; margin-right: 10px; margin-left: 10px; float: left;" /></b><b>MOLLY CROCKETT</b> is an Associate Professor in the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford; Wellcome Trust Postdoctoral Fellow at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging.</p>
<p><b><strong><a href="http://edge.org/memberbio/molly_crockett" target="_blank">Molly Crockett's <em>Edge</em> Bio Page</a></strong></b></p>
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<p><b>HANS ULRICH OBRIST</b> is the Co-director of the Serpentine Gallery in London; Author, <em>Ways of Curating. </em><b><strong><a href="https://edge.org/memberbio/hans_ulrich_obrist" target="_blank">Hans Ulrich Obrist's <em>Edge</em> Bio Page</a></strong></b></p>
<p><b>JOHN BROCKMAN</b> is the Editor and Publisher of Edge.org; Chairman of Brockman, Inc.; Author, <em>By the Late John Brockman, The Third Culture. </em><b><strong><a href="http://edge.org/memberbio/john_brockman" target="_blank">John Brockman's <em>Edge</em> Bio Page</a></strong></b></p>
<p class="rteright"><a href="http://edge.org/conversation/edgies-on-extinction" target="_blank"><strong><span style="font-size: 16px;">[...Continue to Part II</span></strong><strong><span style="font-size: 16px;"> — Video &amp; Text]</span></strong></a></p>
<hr /><p><b><strong><em>EDGE</em> &amp; SERPENTINE GALLERY</strong></b></p>
<p>Previous <em>Edge</em>-Serpentine collaborations have included:</p>
<p><b><strong><a href="http://edge.org/conversation/what-is-your-formula-your-equation-your-algorithm" target="_blank">"Formulae for the 21st Century"</a> </strong>(2007)<br /><strong><a href="http://edge.org/events/serpentine-edge-experiment-marathon" target="_blank">"The Table-Top Experiment Marathon</a>" </strong>(2007)<br /><strong><a href="http://edge.org/events/edge-serpentine-gallery-maps-for-the-21st-century" target="_blank">"Maps For The 21st Century" </a>(</strong>2010)<br /><strong><a href="http://edge.org/conversation/serpentine-gallery-edge-2011" target="_blank">"Information Gardens"</a></strong> (2011) </b></p>
<hr /><p><b><strong>SPEAKING OF EXTINCTIONS....</strong></b></p>
<p><em>Edge</em>'s own contribution to the conversation will be published in February:</p>
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</div></div></div>Wed, 29 Oct 2014 19:20:14 +0000edge_manager25955 at http://edge.orgSerpentine Galleries Extinction Marathonhttp://edge.org/event/serpentine-galleries-extinction-marathon
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<strong>EDGE: LIVE, IN LONDON</strong></h1>
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<strong><span style="color:#b22222;">COMING SOON: COMPLETE VIDEO COVERAGE OF THE EVENT</span></strong><strong style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: rgb(178, 34, 34);"> </span></strong></h1>
<p>This year's collaboration with the Serpentine Gallery in London was part of the "Extinction Marathon: Visions of the Future" event, which will took place in the Serpentine Sackler Gallery's extension, designed by Zaha Hadid, on Oct. 18th. The entire event which was live-streamed, will be presented on <em>Edge.</em></p>
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<strong>An EDGE Conversation: "DE-EXTINCTION": Stewart Brand &amp; Richard Prum<br />
with Hans Ulrich Obrist &amp; John Brockman</strong></h3>
<p>Does the prospect of "de-extinction" change how we think about extinction? Conservation science is shifting from being species-centric to function-centric, focussing on the overall health of ecosystems. Does the extinction of a species leave a "gap in nature" that can only be filled by returning the species to life and to the wild? Or will a functionally close relative serve? Is a de-extincted species really nothing more than a functionally close relative anyway? If it is too difficult and expensive to revive every extinct species, what are the criteria for deciding which ones to work on? Humans are the ones deciding. What ethics and aesthetics should guide those decisions?</p>
<p class="rtecenter"><strong style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" src="http://edge.org/sites/default/files/styles/member-photo/public/member-pictures/picture-26-1410826638.jpg?itok=rmlEHzW3" style="width: 200px; height: 200px;" /> </strong><strong style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" src="http://edge.org/sites/default/files/styles/member-photo/public/member-pictures/picture-3441-1412997472.jpg?itok=Ha2SCx_2" style="width: 200px; height: 200px;" /></strong></p>
<p><strong>STEWART BRAND</strong> is the Founder of the "The Whole Earth Catalog" and Co-founder of The Long Now Foundation and Revive and Restore; Author, <em>Whole Earth Discipline</em>.</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://edge.org/memberbio/stewart_brand" target="_blank">Stewart Brand's <em>Edge</em> Bio Page</a></strong></p>
<p><strong>RICHARD PRUM</strong> is an Evolutionary Ornithologist at Yale University, where he is the Curator of Ornithology and Head Curator of Vertebrate Zoology in the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History. He is working on a book about duck sex, aesthetic evolution, and the origin of beauty.</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://edge.org/memberbio/richard_prum" target="_blank">Richard Prum's <em>Edge</em> Bio Page</a></strong></p>
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<strong>"<em>EDGIES</em> ON EXTINCTION": 10 Minute talks by Helena Cronin, Jennifer Jacquet, Steve Jones, and Chiara Marletto, and an EDGE discussion joined by Molly Crockett, Hans Ulrich Obrist, and John Brockman.</strong></h3>
<p><br div="" style="display: block; min-height: 205px;" /></p>
<p><img align="left" alt="" src="http://edge.org/sites/default/files/styles/member-photo/public/member-pictures/picture-197-1411679746.jpg?itok=g4C0xohR" style="width: 200px; height: 200px; margin-right: 10px; margin-left: 10px;" /><em>I dream about the sea cow or imagine what they would be like to see in the wild, but the case of the Pinta Island giant tortoise was a particularly strange feeling for me personally because I had spent many afternoons in the Galapagos Islands when I was a volunteer with the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society in Lonesome George’s den with him. If any of you visited the Galapagos, you know that you can even feed the giant tortoises that are in the Charles Darwin Research Station. This is Lonesome George here.<br />
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He lived to a ripe old age but failed, as they pointed out many times, to reproduce. Just recently, in 2012, he died, and with him the last of his species. He was couriered to the American Museum of Natural History and taxidermied there. A couple weeks ago his body was unveiled. This was the unveiling that I attended, and at this exact moment in time I can say that I was feeling a little like I am now: nervous and kind of nauseous, while everyone else seemed calm. I wasn’t prepared to see Lonesome George. Here he is taxidermied, looking out over Central Park, which was strange as well. At that moment realized that I knew the last individual of this species to go extinct. That presents this strange predicament for us to be in in the 21st century—this idea of conspicuous extinction. ...</em></p>
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<p><strong>JENNIFER JACQUET</strong> is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at NYU researching cooperation and the tragedy of the commons; Author, <em>Is Shame Necessary?</em></p>
<p><strong><a href="http://edge.org/memberbio/jennifer_jacquet" target="_blank">Jennifer Jacquet's <em>Edge</em> Bio Page</a></strong></p>
<p><b r=""><span class="rtecenter"><strong>~ ~ ~ ~</strong></span></b></p>
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<p><em>There is a new fundamental theory of physics that’s called constructor theory, and was proposed by David Deutsch who pioneered the theory of the universe of quantum computer. David and I are working this theory together. The fundamental idea in this theory is that we formulate all laws of physics in terms of what tasks are possible, what are impossible, and why. In this theory we have an exact physical characterization of an object that has those properties, and we call that knowledge. Note that knowledge here means knowledge without knowing the subject, as in the theory of knowledge of the philosopher, Karl Popper.</em></p>
<p><em>We’ve just come to the conclusion that the fact that extinction is possible means that knowledge can be instantiated in our physical world. In fact, extinction is the very process by which that knowledge is disabled in its ability to remain instantiated in physical systems because there are problems that it cannot solve. With any luck that bit of knowledge can be replaced with a better one. ...</em></p>
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<p><strong>CHIARA MARLETTO</strong> is a Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College and Postdoctoral Research Assistnat at the Materials Department at the University of Oxford.</p>
<p><b r=""><strong><a href="http://edge.org/memberbio/chiara_marletto" target="_blank">Chiara Marletto's <em>Edge</em> Bio Page</a></strong></b></p>
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<p><em>What I wanted to talk about is somewhat of a parallel of that in human populations. If you were to go to a textbook on human biology from the time of Darwin or a bit later, you would certainly get an image that looked a bit like this. This is an image of the so-called races of humankind—racial types, as they called them. I’m not going to go into the question of whether there are real races of humankind because there aren’t. It’s interesting to note that until quite recently people assumed, and scientists assumed too, that the human species was divided into distinct groups that were biologically different from each other and had been isolated from each other for a long, long time.</em></p>
<p><em>Well, to some extent that was true. Until quite recently, human populations were isolated from each other. That’s changing quite quickly. ...</em></p>
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<p><strong>STEVE JONES</strong> is a Professor of Genetics at the Galton Laboratory of University College London; Author, <em>The Lanugage of the Genes</em>.</p>
<p><b r=""><strong><a href="http://edge.org/memberbio/steve_jones" target="_blank">Steve Jones's <em>Edge</em> Bio Page</a></strong></b></p>
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<p><em>... A strange thing happened on the way to a better world in pursuit of an admirable quest, that is, a world free of sex discrimination where you’re judged on your own qualities and not your sex. Truth and falsity went topsy-turvy. The truth—the silence of sex differences—became dangerous, unmentionable, and in its place the conventional wisdom, which is a ragbag of ideas that have long been extinct but are kept ghoulishly alive by popularity, became the entrenched orthodoxy influencing public thinking, agendas and policy-making, and completely crowding out science and sense.</em></p>
<p><em>My aim is to show you why the current orthodoxy should be abandoned and why, if you really care about a fairer world, the science does matter. It matters profoundly. I’m going to take two examples, both about the professions, because they very well epitomize the orthodox litany: how society systematically discriminates against women, and how at work they are victims of pervasive sexism. ...</em></p>
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<p><strong>HELENA CRONIN </strong>is the Co-Director of LSE's Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science; Author, <em>The Ant and the Peacock: Altruism and Sexual Selection from Darwin to Today.</em></p>
<p><b r=""><strong><a href="http://edge.org/memberbio/helena_cronin" target="_blank">Helena Cronin's <em>Edge</em> Bio Page</a></strong></b></p>
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<p><b r=""><strong>MOLLY CROCKETT</strong></b> is an Associate Professor in the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford; Wellcome Trust Postdoctoral Fellow at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging.</p>
<p><b r=""><strong><a href="http://edge.org/memberbio/molly_crockett" target="_blank">Molly Crockett's <em>Edge</em> Bio Page</a></strong></b></p>
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<p><b r="" style="font-size: 12px;"><strong>HANS ULRICH OBRIST</strong></b><span style="font-size: 12px;"> is the Co-director of the Serpentine Gallery in London; Author, </span><em style="font-size: 12px;">Ways of Curating. </em><b r="" style="font-size: 11.8181819915771px;"><strong><a href="https://edge.org/memberbio/hans_ulrich_obrist" target="_blank">Hans Ulrich Obrist's <em>Edge</em> Bio Page</a></strong></b></p>
<p><b r=""><strong>JOHN BROCKMAN</strong></b> is the Editor and Publisher of Edge.org; Chairman of Brockman, Inc.; Author, <em>By the Late John Brockman, The Third Culture. </em><b r="" style="font-size: 11.8181819915771px;"><strong><a href="http://edge.org/memberbio/john_brockman" target="_blank">John Brockman's <em>Edge</em> Bio Page</a></strong></b></p>
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<p>Previous Edge-Serpentine collaborations have included:</p>
<p><b r=""><strong><a href="http://edge.org/conversation/what-is-your-formula-your-equation-your-algorithm" target="_blank">"Formulae for the 21st Century"</a> </strong>(2007)<br /><strong><a href="http://edge.org/events/serpentine-edge-experiment-marathon" target="_blank">"The Table-Top Experiment Marathon</a>" </strong>(2007)<br /><strong><a href="http://edge.org/events/edge-serpentine-gallery-maps-for-the-21st-century" target="_blank">"Maps For The 21st Century" </a>(</strong>2010)<br /><strong><a href="http://edge.org/conversation/serpentine-gallery-edge-2011" target="_blank">"Information Gardens"</a></strong> (2011) </b></p>
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<p>Edge's own contribution to the conversation will be published in February:</p>
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</div></div></div>Mon, 13 Oct 2014 15:06:47 +0000edge_manager25952 at http://edge.orgEDGE @ WORLD SCIENCE FESTIVAL 2014http://edge.org/event/edge-world-science-festival-2014
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<p><strong style="font-size: 16px;"><em>E<span style="font-size:14px;">dge</span></em><span style="font-size:14px;"> @ World Sci</span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:14px;">ence Festival: </span><a href="http://bit.ly/Td6rRu" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:14px;">REAL SCENARIOS THAT KEEP SCIENTISTS UP AT NIGHT</span></a></strong><br /><span style="font-size:12px;">Panelists: Helen Fisher, Amanda Gefter, Seth Lloyd, Steven Pinker, Max Tegmark; Moderator, John Brockman</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12px;"><strong>Science and Story Cafe: Meet the Authors</strong></span><br />
Date: Saturday, May 31, 2014<br />
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM</p>
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Venue: NYU Kimmel Center<br /><span style="font-size:12px;"><strong><a href="http://www.eventbrite.com/e/science-and-story-cafe-meet-the-authors-free-tickets-11639687619" target="_blank">Register Now</a></strong></span></div>
<p><span style="font-size: 12px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;">What should we be worried about? That is the question John Brockman, founding editor of the celebrated science website </span><strong style="font-size: 12px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.edge.org/"><em>Edge</em></a>,</strong><span style="font-size: 12px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;"> posed in 2013 to our planet’s most influential minds. Five leading scientists share their worries and discuss their </span><span style="font-size: 12px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;">own recent books</span>.</p>
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<p><strong>Moderator</strong><br /><strong><a href="http://edge.org/memberbio/helen_fisher">JOHN BROCKMAN</a></strong><br />
Editor, Edge.org; Chairman of Brockman, Inc.; Author, <em>By the Late John Brockman, The Third Culture; </em>Editor<em>, <a href="#a">What Should We Be Worried About?</a></em></p>
<p> <strong>Featuring </strong><br /><strong><a href="http://edge.org/memberbio/helen_fisher">HELEN FISHER</a></strong><br />
Biological Anthropologist, Rutgers University; Author, <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0805091521/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0805091521&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=worlsciefest-20&amp;linkId=WSOWYKE76JMQJS2N">Why Him? Why Her?: How to Find and Keep Lasting Love</a></em><br /><strong><a href="http://www.worldsciencefestival.com/" target="_blank">AMANDA GEFTER</a></strong><br />
Consultant, <em>New Scientist</em>; Founding Editor, "CultureLab"; Author, <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0345531434/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0345531434&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=worlsciefest-20&amp;linkId=ZAPVCQ43XRG62UZM">Trespassing on Einstein’s Lawn: A Father, a Daughter, the Meaning of Nothing, and the Beginning of Everything</a></em><br /><strong><a href="http://edge.org/memberbio/seth_lloyd">SETH LLOYD</a></strong><br />
Professor of Quantum Mechanical Engineering, MIT; Author, <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1400033861/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1400033861&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=worlsciefest-20&amp;linkId=Q7WP3W62NEWXPKJN">Programming the Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes on the Cosmos</a></em><br /><strong><a href="http://edge.org/memberbio/steven_pinker">STEVEN PINKER</a></strong><br />
Johnstone Family Professor, Department of Psychology; Harvard University; Author, <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0143122010/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0143122010&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=worlsciefest-20&amp;linkId=YAS56JL3RYSJA7MJ">The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined</a></em><br /><strong><a href="http://edge.org/memberbio/max_tegmark">MAX TEGMARK</a></strong><br />
Physicist, MIT; Researcher, Precision Cosmology; Scientific Director, Foundational Questions Institute; Author, <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307599809/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0307599809&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=worlsciefest-20&amp;linkId=WNIY7HL2YAJE6TZT">Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality</a></em></p>
<p>[<strong>ED. NOTE: </strong>The 2014 World Science Festival takes place May 28-June 2 in New York City. Under the leadership of cofounders <strong><a href="http://www.worldsciencefestival.com/participants/tracy_day/">Tracy Day</a> </strong>and<strong> <a href="http://edge.org/memberbio/brian_greene">Brian Greene</a>, </strong>the Festival, founded in 2008, has evolved into a deep and rich city-wide intellectual feast, available to all. Highly recommended! <strong><a href="http://www.worldsciencefestival.com/">For information, schedule and tickets, click here.</a></strong> —<strong><a href="http://edge.org/memberbio/john_brockman">JB</a></strong>]</p>
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<p class="rteindent1"><span style="color:#696969;"><strong>“Substantial and engrossing. . . .Brockman and the Edge contributors offer fresh and invaluable perspectives on crucial aspects of our lives.”<br />
—<em>Booklist</em> (starred review)</strong></span></p>
<p class="rteindent1"><span style="color:#696969;"><strong>"The most stimulating English-language reading to be had from anywhere in the world." <br /><em>—The Canberra Times</em></strong></span></p>
<p class="rteindent1"><span style="color:#696969;"><strong>“This collection helps us see the myriad possible concerns laid out before us, articulating the various elements of fear that we need to fear.”<br /><em>—Washington Post</em></strong></span></p>
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</div></div></div>Sat, 17 May 2014 03:27:43 +0000edge_manager25694 at http://edge.orgTHE EDGE DINNER 2014http://edge.org/event/the-edge-dinner-2014
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<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p class="p1">March 5, 2014<br /><img alt="" src="http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/kahneman_bday2014/883_2.jpg" style="width: 620px; height: 410px;" /></p>
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<p class="p1"><strong><a href="http://www.edge.org/memberbio/daniel_kahneman">Daniel Kahneman </a></strong>turns 80 today (March 5, 2014). <em>Edge</em> is using this occasion to launch a Reality Club Discussion about his work. (See: <a href="http://edge.org/conversation/on-kahneman" target="_blank"><strong>On Kahneman</strong></a>). Also, we are pleased to reprise some of his contributions to our pages below. </p>
<p class="p2"><strong>—<a href="http://edge.org/memberbio/john_brockman">John Brockman</a></strong></p>
<p class="p1">DANIEL KAHNEMAN is the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economics, 2002 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 2013. He is Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology Emeritus, Princeton, and Author of <em>Thinking Fast and Slow.<strong> (</strong></em><strong><a href="http://www.edge.org/memberbio/daniel_kahneman" target="_blank">Daniel Kahneman's Edge Bio Page</a>)</strong></p>
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<hr /><p><em style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">Millions of people have been asked the question, how satisfied are you with your life? That is a question to the remembering self, and there is a fair amount that we know about the happiness or the well-being of the remembering self. But the distinction between the remembering self and the experiencing self suggests immediately that there is another way to ask about well-being, and that's the happiness of the experiencing self.</em></p>
<p class="p1" style="text-align: center;"> <b><a href="http://www.edge.org/conversation/a-short-course-in-thinking-about-thinking" target="_blank">A SHORT COURSE IN THINKING ABOUT THINKING</a></b><br /><strong>Edge Master Class</strong><br />
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Daniel Kahneman, Larry Page, Jeff Bezos, Katinka Matson, Nathan Myrhvold, Peter Diamandis, Dean Kamen, W. Daniel Hillis, George Smoot, Karla Taylor, Jimmy Wales, Salar Kamangar, George Dyson, Seth Lloyd, Tim O'Reilly, Sergey Brin</p>
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Anne Treisman</p>
</div></div></div>Sat, 01 Dec 2012 20:21:01 +0000edge_manager3471 at http://edge.orgEdge @ DLD 2014http://edge.org/event/edge-dld-2014
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JANUARY 19-21, 2014</p>
<p>On the road to Munich in January for <strong><a href="http://dld-conference.com/DLD14" target="_blank">DLD14</a>,</strong> the 10th annual DLD conference (Digital-Life-Day) run by <strong><a href="http://edge.org/memberbio/steffi_czerny" target="_blank">Steffi Czerny</a> </strong>and <strong><a href="http://edge.org/memberbio/lukas_kubina" target="_blank">Lukas Kubina</a> </strong>for Hubert Burda Media. The theme this year: "Content and Context". It was the fifth time <em>Edge</em> has been asked to participate. (See below for links to our previous DLD co-events.)</p>
<p class="rtecenter"><img alt="" src="/images/Czerny_jb.web.640.jpg" style="width: 640px; height: 480px;" /><br /><strong><a href="http://edge.org/memberbio/steffi_czerny" target="_blank">Steffi Czerny</a> and <a href="http://edge.org/memberbio/john_brockman" target="_blank">John Brockman</a></strong></p>
<p>This year the <em>Edge </em>conversation was on "information" from the Neandertal DNA sequenced by Svante Pääbo, the founder of the field of ancient DNA, to the multi-particle entanglement states of physicist Anton Zeilinger, which have become essential in fundamental tests of quantum mechanics and in quantum information science, most notably in quantum computation. In addition, <em>Edge's</em> roving editor, Jennifer Jacquet, was present for a session on "Time's Role in the Tragedy of the Commons" in which she developed themes in her work recently presented on <em>Edge</em>. </p>
<hr /><p><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong><a href="http://edge.org/memberbio/svante_paabo">Svante Pääbo</a>, </strong></span><strong style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="http://edge.org/memberbio/anton_zeilinger">Anton Zeilinger,</a></strong><span style="font-size: 18px;"> </span><strong style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="http://edge.org/memberbio/john_brockman">John Brockman:</a> </strong><strong style="font-size: 18px;">On Information</strong></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12px;"><strong>SVANTE PÄÄBO</strong> the founder of the field of ancient DNA, is Director, Department of Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig. Among his achievements are the first demonstration of DNA survival in an ancient Egyptian mummy, the first amplification of ancient DNA, the first study of the DNA from the Iceman found in the Alps, and the first retrieval of DNA from a Neanderthal in 1997. Four years ago, he initiated and organized an effort to sequence the entire Neanderthal genome. The first scientific overview of the genome was published in 2009 and was front page news word-wide. He is the author of <em style="font-size: 12px;">Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes. </em><a href="http://edge.org/memberbio/svante_paabo" style="font-size: 14px;" target="_blank"><strong>Svante Pääbo's <em>Edge</em> Bio Page</strong></a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12px;"><strong>ANTON ZEILINGER</strong>, a physicist, is Professor of Physics at the Quantum Optics, Quantum Nanophysics, Quantum Information Institute of University of Vienna. He is President of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the author of <em style="font-size: 12px;">Dance of the Photons: From Einstein to Quantum Teleportation</em><em style="font-size: 12px;">. </em></span>Zeilinger is a pioneer in the field of quantum information and of the foundations of quantum mechanics. He realized many important quantum information protocols for the first time, including quantum teleportation of an independent qubit, entanglement swapping (i.e. the teleportation of an entangled state), hyper-dense coding (which was the first entanglement-based protocol ever realized in experiment), entanglement-based quantum cryptography, one-way quantum computation and blind quantum computation. His further contributions to the experimental and conceptual foundations of quantum mechanics include multi-particle entanglement and matter wave interference all the way from neutrons via atoms to macromolecules such as fullerenes.<span style="font-size:12px;"> <strong style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://edge.org/memberbio/anton_zeilinger" target="_blank">Anton Zeilinger's <em>Edge</em> Bio Page</a></strong></span></p>
<hr /><p><strong style="font-size: 18.399999618530273px;"><a name="jj" id="jj"></a></strong><span style="font-size:18px;"><strong><a href="http://edge.org/memberbio/jennifer_jacquet">Jennifer Jacquet</a>: Times Role in the Tragedy of the Commons</strong></span></p>
<p> <span style="font-size:12px;"><strong style="font-size: 12px;">How do tensions between individuals and groups play out? Between high-consuming people and low? Between the now and the future? Game theory offers answers.</strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12px;"><strong>JENNIFER JACQUET</strong> is Clinical Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies, NYU, researching <a href="http://edge.org/conversation/is-shame-necessary">shame,</a>cooperation and the tragedy of the commons. She is also <em>Edge's </em>Roving Editor (see interviews with <a href="http://www.edge.org/conversation/disfluency">Adam Alter</a> and <a href="http://edge.org/conversation/how-culture-drove-human-evolution">Joseph Heinrich</a>).</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12px;">Her work was recently featured on <em>Edge</em> after <em>Nature Climate Change</em> published a study by Jacquet and her colleagues at two Max Planck Institutes on <a href="http://www.edge.org/conversation/delayed-gratification-hurts-climate-change-cooperation">"Delayed Gratification Hurts Cimate Change Cooperation"</a>. <a href="http://edge.org/memberbio/jennifer_jacquet" style="font-size: 14px;" target="_blank"><strong>Jennifer Jacquet's <em style="font-size: 12px;">Edge</em> Bio Page</strong></a></span></p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 24 Jan 2014 16:45:26 +0000edge_administrator25570 at http://edge.orgHeadCon '13: WHAT'S NEW IN SOCIAL SCIENCE?http://edge.org/event/headcon-13-whats-new-in-social-science
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>In July, 2013,&nbsp;<em>Edg</em>e invited a group of social scientists to participate in an&nbsp;<a href="http://edge.org/eastover-farm-events" target="_blank"><span style="color:#8b4513;"><strong><em>Edge</em>&nbsp;Seminar at Eastover Farm</strong></span></a> focusing on the state of the art of what the social sciences have to tell us about human nature.&nbsp;The ten speakers were&nbsp;<strong><a href="http://edge.org/memberbio/sendhil_mullainathan" target="_blank">Sendhil Mullainathan</a>,</strong><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">&nbsp;</span><strong><a href="http://www.edge.org/memberbio/june_gruber" target="_blank">June Gruber</a>,&nbsp;</strong><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">&nbsp;</span><strong><a href="http://edge.org/memberbio/fiery_cushman" target="_blank">Fiery Cushman</a>,&nbsp;</strong><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">&nbsp;</span><strong><a href="http://www.edge.org/memberbio/robert_kurzban" target="_blank">Rob Kurzban</a>,&nbsp;</strong><a href="http://edge.org/memberbio/nicholas_a_christakis" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">Nicholas Christakis</a><font color="#000000">,&nbsp;</font><strong><a href="http://www.edge.org/memberbio/joshua_d_greene" target="_blank">Joshua Greene</a><font color="#000000">,&nbsp;</font></strong><strong><a href="http://edge.org/memberbio/laurie_r_santos" target="_blank">Laurie Santos</a><font color="#000000">,&nbsp;</font></strong><strong><a href="http://www.edge.org/memberbio/joshua_knobe" target="_blank">Joshua Knobe</a><font color="#000000">,&nbsp;</font></strong><strong><a href="http://www.edge.org/memberbio/david_pizarro" target="_blank">David Pizarro</a><font color="#000000">,&nbsp;</font></strong><strong><a href="http://www.edge.org/memberbio/daniel_c_dennett" target="_blank">Daniel C. Dennett</a></strong><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">.&nbsp;</span>Also participating were<strong>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.edge.org/memberbio/daniel_kahneman" target="_blank">Daniel Kahneman</a>,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.edge.org/memberbio/anne_treisman" target="_blank">Anne Treisman</a>,&nbsp;</strong><strong><a href="http://www.edge.org/memberbio/jennifer_jacquet" target="_blank">Jennifer Jacquet</a>.</strong></p>
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<p><span style="color:#000000;">We asked the participants to consider the following questions:&nbsp;</span></p>
<p class="rteindent2"><strong><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">&quot;What&#39;s new in your field of social science in the last year or two, and why should we care?&quot;&nbsp;&quot;Why do we want or need to know about it?&quot;&nbsp;&quot;How does it change our view of human nature?&quot; </span></strong></p>
<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">And in so doing we also asked them to&nbsp;</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">focus broadly and address the major developments in their field (including but not limited to their own research agenda). The goal: to get new, fresh, and original up-to-date field reports on different areas of social science.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14px;"><strong style="font-size: 12px;"><a href="http://www.edge.org/panel/headcon-13-part-i">What Big Data Means For Social Science</a>&nbsp;(Sendhil Mullainathan) |&nbsp;<a href="http://edge.org/panel/headcon-13-part-ii">The Scientific Study of Positive Emotion</a>&nbsp;(June Gruber) |&nbsp;<a href="http://edge.org/panel/headcon-13-part-iii">The Paradox of Automatic Planning</a>&nbsp;(Fiery Cushman)&nbsp;|&nbsp;</strong></span><strong style="font-size: 12px;"><a href="http://edge.org/panel/headcon-13-part-iv">P-Hacking and the Replication Crisis</a>&nbsp;(Rob Kurzban) |&nbsp;</strong><strong style="font-size: 12px;"><a href="http://edge.org/panel/headcon-13-part-v">The Science of Social Connections</a>&nbsp;(Nicholas Christakis)&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.edge.org/panel/headcon-13-part-vi-the-role-of-brain-imaging-in-social-science">The Role of Brain Imaging in Social Science</a>&nbsp;(Joshua Greene) |&nbsp;<a href="http://www.edge.org/panel/headcon-13-part-vii">What Makes Humans Unique</a>&nbsp;(Laurie Santos)&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.edge.org/panel/headcon-13-part-viii">Experimental Philosophy and the Notion of the Self</a>&nbsp; (Joshua Knobe) |&nbsp;<a href="http://edge.org/panel/david-pizarro-the-failure-of-social-and-moral-intuitions-headcon-13-part-ix">The Failure of Social and Moral Intuitions</a>&nbsp;(David Pizarro)&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://edge.org/panel/daniel-c-dennett-the-de-darwinizing-of-cultural-change-headcon-13-part-x">The De-Darwinizing of Cultural Change</a>&nbsp;(Daniel C. Dennett)</strong></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12px; color: rgb(139, 69, 19);"><strong>HeadCon &#39;13: WHAT&#39;S NEW IN SOCIAL SCIENCE</strong></span><span style="font-size: 12px;"> was also an experiment in online video designed to capture the dynamic of an&nbsp;</span><em style="font-size: 12px;">Edge </em><span style="font-size: 12px;">seminar,&nbsp;focusing on the interaction of ideas, and of people. The documentary film-maker&nbsp;</span><strong style="font-size: 12px;"><a href="http://www.edge.org/memberbio/jason_wishnow" style="text-align: center;" target="_blank"><span style="color:#8b4513;">Jason Wishnow</span></a></strong><span style="font-size: 12px;">, the pioneer of &quot;TED Talks&quot;&nbsp;during his tenure as director of film and video at TED (2006-2012), helped&nbsp;us develop this new iteration of&nbsp;</span><em style="font-size: 12px;">Edge&nbsp;</em><span style="font-size: 12px;">Video, filming the ten sessions in split-screen with five cameras, presenting each speaker and the surrounding participants from&nbsp;multiple simultaneous camera perspectives. &nbsp;</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span style="color:#000000;">We are now pleased to present the program in its entirety<strong>, </strong></span><span style="color:#000000;">nearly six hours of <em>Edge&nbsp;</em>Video and a downloadable PDF of the 58,000-word transcript.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The great biologist Ernst Mayr (the &quot;Darwin of the 20th Century&quot;) once said to me: &quot;Edge is a conversation.&quot; And like&nbsp;any conversation, it is evolving. And what a conversation it is!&nbsp;</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12px;">(6 hours of video; 58,000 words)</span><span style="font-size: 12px;">&nbsp;</span></p>
<p class="rteright"><strong style="text-align: right; font-size: 12px;"><a href="http://edge.org/memberbio/john_brockman" target="_blank">John Brockman</a>,&nbsp;<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Editor</span></strong><br />
<strong style="font-size: 12px;"><a href="http://edge.org/memberbio/russell_weinberger">Russell Weinberger</a>,&nbsp;<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Associate Publisher</span></strong></p>
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Download PDF of Manuscript</a>&nbsp;| <a href="http://edge.org/event/headcon-13-whats-new-in-social-science" target="_blank">Continue to Video and Online Text&nbsp;</a></span></strong></span></p>
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</div></div></div>Sun, 20 Oct 2013 16:18:25 +0000edge_manager25268 at http://edge.orgASK A SCIFOO QUESTION?http://edge.org/event/ask-a-scifoo-question
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p><span style="font-size:16px;"><strong>You can answer the question, but are you bright enough to ask it?</strong></span></p>
<p class="rteright" style=""><span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>— <a href="http://edge.org/memberbio/james_lee_byars">James Lee Byars</a></strong></span></p>
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<p><strong>INTRODUCTION<br />
by <a href="http://edge.org/memberbio/john_brockman" target="_blank">John Brockman</a></strong></p>
<p>The <em>Edge</em> motto, adopted from the artist James Lee Byars' "World Question Center" is "To arrive at the edge of the world's knowledge, seek out the most complex and sophisticated minds, put them in a room together, and have them ask each other the questions they are asking themselves". As Wallace Stevens wrote in "Notes Toward A Supreme Fiction" (1942): "The final elegance, not to console / Nor sanctify, but plainly to propound." </p>
<p>It's the quality of the questions that defines the scientific endeavor, not the answers encrusted in stories and narratives. This year, at SciFoo 2013, <em>Edge </em>presented the opportunity to several of the nearly 300 participants to respond to the following: "What is your question from SciFoo 2013?" Watch the 8-minute video below for the responses. This is followed by responses to the question "Who and/or what was fresh and new at SciFoo 2013?", and a photo gallery, which extends to San Francisco the following evening.</p>
<p>But first, what is "SciFoo"?</p>
<p>The annual event is run by three sponsors: O'Reilly Media (Tim O'Reilly is responsible for "FOO", or, "friends of O'Reilly"), <em>Nature </em>Magazine (and their spin-off company, Digital Science), and Google. This year 62% of the participants were new. This approach keeps the event new and fresh every year. The ratio of participants to interesting people? 1-to-1. </p>
<p>As theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate <a href="http://edge.org/memberbio/frank_wilczek">Frank Wilczek</a> noted in his report on <a href="http://edge.org/conversation/a-slice-of-scifoo" target="_blank">SciFoo 2007</a> for <em>Edge</em>:</p>
<p class="rteindent1">"SciFoo is a conference like no other. It brings together a mad mix from the worlds of science, technology, and other branches of the ineffable Third Culture at the Google campus in Mountain View. Improvised, loose, massively parallel—it's a happening. If you're not overwhelmed by the rush of ideas then you're not paying attention."</p>
<p>Also, see <a href="http://edge.org/memberbio/george_dyson">George Dyson</a>'s report on <a href="http://edge.org/conversation/scifoo-2007" target="_blank">SciFoo 2007</a>; <a href="http://edge.org/documents/scifoo09/scifoo09_index.html" target="_blank">Photos</a> and <a href="http://www.edge.org/discourse/scifoo09.html" target="_blank">comments</a> on SciFoo2009, and the <em>Edge</em>-SciFoo report on <a href="http://www.edge.org/conversation/sci-foo-2011" target="_blank">SciFoo 2011</a>. </p>
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<p><span class="member-name"><a href="http://edge.org/memberbio/tyler_cowen">Tyler Cowen</a></span><span>, </span><span class="member-name"><a href="http://edge.org/memberbio/joseph_yossi_vardi">Joseph "Yossi" Vardi</a></span><span>, <a href="http://www.anthropoceneinstitute.com/" target="_blank">Carl Page</a></span><span>, </span><span class="member-name"><a href="http://edge.org/memberbio/fiery_cushman">Fiery Cushman</a></span><span>, </span><span class="member-name"><a href="http://edge.org/memberbio/lee_smolin">Lee Smolin</a></span><span>, </span><span class="member-name"><a href="http://edge.org/memberbio/linda_stone">Linda Stone</a></span><span>, </span><span class="member-name"><a href="http://edge.org/memberbio/paul_davies">Paul Davies</a></span><span>, </span><span class="member-name"><a href="http://edge.org/memberbio/paul_steinhardt">Paul Steinhardt</a></span><span>, </span><span class="member-name"><a href="http://edge.org/memberbio/peter_norvig">Peter Norvig</a></span><span>, </span><span class="member-name"><a href="http://edge.org/memberbio/richard_potts">Richard Potts</a></span><span>, </span><span class="member-name"><a href="http://edge.org/memberbio/steve_fuller">Steve Fuller</a></span><span>, </span><span class="member-name"><a href="http://edge.org/memberbio/stuart_firestein">Stuart Firestein</a></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:14px;">WHO AND/OR WHAT WAS FRESH AND NEW AT SCI/FOO 2013?"</span></strong><br /><a href="http://edge.org/memberbio/george_dyson">George Dyson</a>, <a href="http://edge.org/memberbio/esther_dyson">Esther Dyson</a>, <a href="http://edge.org/memberbio/steve_fuller" target="_blank">Steve Fuller</a>, <a href="http://edge.org/memberbio/stewart_brand" target="_blank">Stewart Brand</a>, <a href="http://edge.org/memberbio/paul_saffo">Paul Saffo</a>, <a href="http://edge.org/memberbio/coco_krumme" target="_blank">Coco Krumme</a>, <a href="http://edge.org/memberbio/john_m_coates" target="_blank">John Coates</a></p>
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<a href="http://edge.org/memberbio/john_m_coates"><strong>JOHN COATES</strong></a></p>
<p>A fascinating weekend, with one lingering regret—that I missed Rory Wilson’s talk on the use of accelerometers in free living animals. I had to piece together the gist of his talk from scraps given me by others and, fortunately, by Rory himself. In his work as an animal behaviourist Rory has been using actigraphy and accelerometers attached to animals in the wild in order to monitor continuously their energy expenditure. Beyond this, though, the data Rory has collected has uncovered subtle changes in background movement that actually reflect the animal’s motivational state. This finding is tremendously interesting. As we learn more about the brain, the more we see that it is built primarily to plan and execute movement, that activities we—under the influence of our Platonic heritage—commonly viewed as pure thought in fact have a somatic echo. Some scientists working with actigraphy have even found predictors, tremors if you will, of impending neuro-degenerative disease. But background activity changes that may reflect motivational states? The very possibility should tantalize any behavioural scientist.</p>
<p><a href="http://edge.org/memberbio/coco_krumme"><strong>COCO KRUMME</strong></a></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12px;">Serendipity was at work this weekend: I met perhaps the only other person at scifoo (on the entire googolplex?) with a dumb phone. I stubbornly hold onto mine for the very purpose of serendipity, to dampen distraction. Ziyad Marar and I had a wonderful conversation about habits and human behavior, and soon discovered we have in common 1999-era telephones, as well as a healthy skepticism of social media. I hadn't heard of Ziyad's books (Happiness Paradox, Deception, Intimacy), but I picked up two at scifoo and couldn't put them down: his writing mulls human nature, weaving in literature and philosophy without succumbing to the tired conventions of contemporary science writing. A breath of fresh air.</span></p>
<p><strong><a href="http://edge.org/memberbio/paul_saffo">PAUL SAFFO</a>: Kröpelin's Mysteries of the Sahara</strong></p>
<div>The single most astonishing session for me was Stefan Kröpelin's "Miracle of the Sahara." Kroplin compressed 40 years of research and exploration into a whirlwind tour of the Sahara's mysteries and what it is like to do science there. Summarizing conditions, he noted, "Sometimes, you get stuck hundreds of times per day… and the real problem isn't the heat; it's the cold." The size of the U.S, Kröpelin's Sahara is full of mysteries: Gilf Kebir, a sand plateau atop an ancient fluvial system in Southwest Egypt holds rock art from the middle Holocene, over 10,000 figures in one cave alone. The Wadi Howar was thought by Heroditus to be the source of the Nile; now it is vast desert, but in it's heart is the Ounianga Kebir, a cluster of freshwater aquifer-fed "gravity lakes," and home to seven crocodiles, the remnant of an Ice Age population, now isolated from other crocs by hundreds of miles of searing desert.</div>
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<div>But the biggest mystery was sitting right in front of Kröpelin as he spoke. It was a chunk of "Libyan Desert Glass," 28 million year-old fused glass the color of pale emerald and the purest natural glass in the world. Discovered by Europeans in 1932, the stuff is strewn across a vast area of desert at the edge of Egypt's great Sand Sea. Kröpelin's chunk looked like a glass meteorite, complete with ablation regmaglypts, suggesting that the glass was created by a meteor strike that liquefied the surface rocks in a process not unlike that which created tektite strewn-fields elsewhere on the earth. Except… no one has found a crater. Perhaps the glass is a radiative melt artifact of a Tunguska-like airburst? Others speculate that it is hydrovolcanic in origin, but no has found a volcanic source. </div>
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<div>What we do know is that the Sahara's earliest inhabitants knapped the glass into tools, and that it was prized by the Egyptians—a scarab carved from the stuff is set into a pectoral worn by Tutankhamun. That fact tied nicely with Kröpelin's final and most surprising statement: the origins of the pharonic tradition lie in the Western Desert, not the Nile Valley. And if the Egyptian civilization was born from the Sahara, then by association, Europe's roots are hidden there as well.<br />
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